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Elizabeth Earle Beske
American University Washington College of Law
4300 Nebraska Ave., NW, Washington D.C. 20016
301-518-6872 (mobile); beske@wcl.american.edu
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (September 1, 2021 to present)
Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (2020-2021)
Professor of Legal Rhetoric, American University Washington College of Law (2010-2019)
Adjunct Professor of Legal Rhetoric, American University Washington College of Law (2008-2010)
Classes Taught: Federal Courts (2017-present); Civil Procedure (2019-present); Constitutional Law (2021-present); Legal Rhetoric (2008-2020)
PUBLICATIONS
Horizontal Federalism and the Big State “Problem” (forthcoming BOSTON COLLEGE L. REV. 2024)
The Court and the Private Plaintiff (58 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 1 (2023)).
Charting a Course Past Spokeo and TransUnion, 29 GEORGE MASON L. REV. 729 (2022).
Litigating the Separation of Powers, 73 ALA. L. REV. 823 (2022).
Backdoor Balancing and the Consequences of Legal Change, 94 WASH. L. REV. 645 (2019).
Rethinking the Nonprecedential Opinion, 65 UCLA L. Rev. 808 (2018).
Political Question Disconnects, 67 AM. U. L. REV. F. 35 (2018).
Note, Banishing the Thirteenth Juror: An Approach to the Identification of Prosecutorial Racism, 92 COLUM. L. REV. 1212 (1992).
AWARDS
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Excellence in Teaching Award, American University Washington College of Law (October 2018).
EDUCATION
Columbia Law School, J.D. 1993
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John Ordronaux Prize for highest grades in graduating class of 1993 (out of approximately 330 students).
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James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
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Editor-in-Chief, COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW, Volume 93.
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Teaching Assistant, Civil Procedure.
Princeton University, A.B. in Politics with Certificate in American Studies 1989
CLERKSHIPS
1994-1995 The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor, U.S. Supreme Court.
1993-1994 The Honorable Patricia M. Wald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
LITIGATION EXPERIENCE
1995-1999 Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, California.
1992 Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, New York (summer).
1991 McCorriston Miho & Miller, Honolulu, Hawaii (summer)
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Executive Committee, D.C. Circuit Historical Society (2017-2019)
Board of Directors, D.C. Circuit Historical Society (2013-2019)
Chair, Program Committee, D.C. Circuit Historical Society (2017-2019), Member, Program Committee (2013-2017)
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Worked on planning committee for June 29, 2019 program entitled Chevron Revisited, including Gillian Metzger, David Vladeck, John Elwood, D.C. Circuit Judges Katsas and Rogers, and Dean Manning of the Harvard Law School.
Worked on planning committee for March 7, 2018 program entitled From Goldwater to Zivotofsky – The Political Question Doctrine in the D.C. Circuit, including Steve Vladeck, Harold Hongju Koh, Catherine Carroll, Beth Brinkmann, Paul Smith, and Judges Edwards and Williams.
Worked on planning committee for February 4, 2017 program entitled In re Judith Miller – National Security and the Reporter’s Privilege, including David Pozen, Laura Handmann, Amy Jeffress, Judges Tatel and Sentelle, James M. Cole, and Stuart Taylor.
Worked on planning committee for October 28, 2015 program entitled Separation of Powers and the Independent Counsel: Morrison v. Olson Revisited, including Amanda Frost, Theodore Olson, Catherine Stetson, and Judges Wald and Silberman.
Georgetown Supreme Court Institute—mooting panelist for advocates in advance of their arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the following cases:
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Biden v. Nebraska
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Berger v. NAACP
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Oil States v. Greene’s Energy Group
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Town of Chester v. LaRoe Estates
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Bullard v. Blue Hills Bank
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Limelight Networks v. Akamai Technologies
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Metrish v. Lancaster
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Evans v. Michigan
Director, ABA Media Alert for U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (2011-2016). Read all published D.C. Circuit opinions and wrote same-day summaries of important decisions for nationwide publication through ABA’s media alert project.
Oral Historian, D.C. Circuit Historical Society. Conducted five separate in-person interviews with Supreme Court Litigator and former Solicitor General Ted Olson.
Coach, Student teams from School Without Walls (DC), participants in the District of Columbia Circuit’s “Mock Court Argument Program”
IN-SCHOOL SERVICE
Chair, Career and Placement Committee (2020-fall 2022)
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Leader/Convener, Judicial Clerkship Faculty Practice Group. Administer a listserv with over 900 recipients giving students and graduates information about judicial internships and post-graduate clerkships. Generate
Faculty Supervisory Board, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW
Faculty Supervisory Board, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY & THE LAW
Coach of eleven teams, Moot Court Honor Society (2013-present)
Judge of Final Panel, Alvina First Year Moot Court Competition, Moot Court Honor Society (2014-present)
Coordinator, Legal Rhetoric Dean’s Fellow Program (2015-2020)
Annual lecturer/participant in Ritsumeikan Law School Seminar.
SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Moderator, Symposium, “Equal Justice Under Law?” American University Law Review (Feb. 3, 2023)—moderated panel entitled “The Current Term.”
Moderator, Symposium, “Major Questions About Agency Authority: A Practical Discussion on the Impact of Limiting Agency Authority,” Administrative Law Review (Nov. 11, 2022)—moderated panel entitled “The Implications of Limiting Agency Authority.”
Presenter, Twelfth Annual Junior Federal Courts Scholars Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 2023 (paper entitled The Court and the Private Plaintiff selected for discussion at plenary session).
Rapid Response Teach-in on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., June 27, 2022 (internal).
Rapid Response Teach-in on Texas SB-8 Statute (internal), September 13 and November 8, 2021. Participated in panel discussion with Professors Wermiel, Kraiem, and Manion on the Supreme Court’s denial of a preliminary injunction barring SB-8 from taking effect (September) and the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the two combined cases (November).
Panelist, Symposium, “Empires or Umpires? Political Questions, Separation of Powers, and Judicial Legitimacy,” University of Connecticut Law Review (Oct. 9, 2020) – participant with Tara Leigh Grove and Fred Smith Jr. in panel entitled “The Constitution, the Courts, and the Development of the Political Question Doctrine.”
Rapid Response Teach-in on Justice Ginsburg and the Supreme Court (internal), September 24, 2020. Participated in a panel discussion with Professors Carle, Epperson, Frost, Wermiel, and LaGuarda to discuss the implications of Justice Ginsburg’s passing.
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Panelist, Panelist, “Supreme Court Series: Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service,” Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, February 19, 2019.
Panelist, “Rethinking the Role of the Supreme Court,” American University, February 27, 2012.
Panelist, “Preview of the OT 11 Supreme Court Term,” American University, September 26, 2011.